Commonwealth Liberal Party

The Commonwealth Liberal Party (CLP) was a liberal political party in Australia that was active from 1909 to 1917. The party was founded by a merger of parties opposed to the Australian Labor Party, with middle-class and upper-class voters supporting the CLP during elections. From 1909 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1914, the CLP headed the government, and it merged into the Nationalist Party of Australia in 1917 alongside a few Labor Party splintergroups.